---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nonpayment of wages; investigations."
description: "Nonpayment of wages; investigations. Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if he acquires information during an investigation of a complaint of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages, to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make a required payment of wages to other employees. The measure also provides that if the Commissioner finds in the course of such investigation that the employer has committed a violation, the Commissioner may institute proceedings on behalf of any employee against his employer. In such proceedings, the Commissioner is not required to have obtained a written complaint of the violation or the written and signed consent of any employee. This bill is identical to SB 49."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 336"
citation: "Virginia HB 336 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcia S. \"Cia\" Price"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-01"
last_action: "2020-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/499203a4-004b-449d-8403-ce581d73b0de"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB336"
source_hash: "d97866e6af1277da3cf4729167c59566c594f7726b6d71283ca074760c0bce30"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 336 (2020) — Nonpayment of wages; investigations.

Nonpayment of wages; investigations. Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if he acquires information during an investigation of a complaint of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages, to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make a required payment of wages to other employees. The measure also provides that if the Commissioner finds in the course of such investigation that the employer has committed a violation, the Commissioner may institute proceedings on behalf of any employee against his employer. In such proceedings, the Commissioner is not required to have obtained a written complaint of the violation or the written and signed consent of any employee. This bill is identical to SB 49.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0206)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB336ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB336ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB336)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB336)

## Votes

- Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) — **38–2** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (16-Y 6-N) — **16–6** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (62-Y 37-N) — **61–37** (pass) · lower
- Referred from General Laws — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
- Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-01-01** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102626D `introduction`
- **2020-01-01** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Referred from General Laws
- **2020-01-16** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- **2020-01-30** Reported from Labor and Commerce (16-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-05** Read third time and passed House (62-Y 37-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-05** VOTE: Passage (62-Y 37-N)
- **2020-02-06** Impact statement from DPB (HB336)
- **2020-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-06** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Enrolled
- **2020-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB336ER)
- **2020-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-26** Signed by President
- **2020-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2020
- **2020-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
- **2020-03-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 206 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/499203a4-004b-449d-8403-ce581d73b0de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).